While the emphasis on the external envelope has resulted in a standardisation of internal layouts that makes design into an eminently technical or exquisitely artistic fact, it is possible on the other hand to perceive an alternative course on the inside of Spanish architecture over the course of the twentieth century that starting with interiors, finds its own reason to exist.
From this point of view a propensity is shown, also thanks to the natural coexistence of premodern instances including Arab and Roman that led to a particular use of materials and the accentuation of the spatial component related to natural light.


Spagna
Interior
Commissioner: Government of Spain, Ministry of Public Works; AC/E, Acción Cultural Española; AECID, Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation and The Caja de Arquitectos Foundation
Curator: Iñaki Ábalos
Deputy curators: Enrique Encabo, Inmaculada E. Maluenda, Lluís Ortega
Location: Giardini

Until 23 November 2014
14. Biennale di Architettura
Fundamentals
Giardini, Venice

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